tax ManagerRoche

This position is responsible for the Roche Companies' tax compliance, tax planning, and accounting for all applicable taxes. Reporting directly to Group Tax in the headquarters and local Finance Manager, the successful candidate will work with businesses and in daily activities he/she will mainly interact with local Finance colleagues, accounting shared services center, tax authority, and other tax professionals in carrying out his or her responsibilities.
The ideal candidate is a team player who works with the local finance, share service center and the businesses to greater performance, creates and implements tax plans, and works with the business and local Finance to identify opportunities and potential areas of risk. The Tax Manager will ensure both compliance and business partnership.
Essential Job Duties
Prepare and Manage Local Tax Operations (Returns, Payments), ensuring correct and timely applicable tax filing.
Maintain effective control procedures over all aspects of the tax process
Provide instructions for Tax Accounting and Payments, including guideline for new tax ruling
Manage Transfer Pricing according to Group Policy
Implement Global Tax Policies
Interactions with local Tax Authorities and Tax Audits
Supervise external tax consultants for any tax case.
Provide business support and advisory on tax where possible
Competencies
We are looking for a candidate with:
At least 5 years' experience in a multinational company either in a tax function or finance areas with exposure to taxes - or from an accounting and tax services advisory company
Ability to contribute directly in fulfilling the essential duties linked to the position with service minded.
Good understanding of Local Taxes, mainly corporate taxes and VAT
Professional qualification in Accounting, Finance or Tax preferable with CPA
Good accounting knowledge and familiarity to use of the business IT systems - Microsoft Office, SAP and Google being the main ones
Fluent in spoken and written English
Strong organizational and interpersonal skills
Process oriented and problem solving mindset, attention to detail
Communication skills both providing information and gathering information, ability to create network inside and outside of the finance and taxes area
Strong ability to utilize project management and accounting best practices to organize and prioritize tasks and the tasks of other team
Self organized with ability to work well independently as well as the ability to work well with stakeholders and communicate the benefits of tax initiatives
Knowledge and experience in the healthcare industry of advantage (primarily pharma or diagnostics)
Job Level: Individual contributor
Roche

Taguig City, Metro Manila
Permanent
Full-time